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Monday, July 18, 2005

9000-year-old man released. "Kennewick Man", an almost complete human skeleton, is finally released after being the centre of a legal tug of war for nine years [New Scientist - Being Human]
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Prehistoric Indian Sites Found In Greene County. "We knew there were Indians here because everyone finds arrowheads and stuff like that on their properties," Archaeologist Rita Fields. [Archaeology - Topix.net]
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Archaeologists unveil treasure from ancient Pompeii. Soldiers Beaten Up at Denny's on Erie Blvd. Severe Summer Storms Sweep Through New Superintendent Chosen Stroller Recall Murder Arrest Schumer Outraged at Homeland Security Shift Wiley Confession Controversy: ... [Archaeology - Topix.net]
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Sifting through the past. Beneath a bluff by the Rhode River, oyster shells are falling out of the bank, which is eroding so readily that several big trees have toppled into the water. [Archaeology - Topix.net]
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Free Beer for Geeks. Open source isn't just for software any more. It also works for beer. At least that's the hope of one group that recently put an open-source license on its recipe for caffeinated beer. [digg]
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Ice Shelf Collapse Reveals New Undersea World. A recently collapsed ice shelf off the coast of Antarctica has revealed an ecosystem that thrives off of methane. These types of ecosystems are common off the coast of Monterey and the Gulf of Mexico. [digg]
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Fundamental discovery -- Bone fracture. A startling discovery about the properties of human bone has been made by scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The scientists describe their results [base ']Äì[base ']Äì finding a sort of "glue" in human bone [base ']Äì[base ']Äì in the cover story of the August issue of the international scientific journal, Nature [Biology News Net]
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